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With the increasing complexity, modern system-onchip (SoC) designs are becoming more susceptible to security attacks and require comprehensive security assurance. However, establishing a comprehensive assurance for security often involves knowledge of relevant security assets. Since modern SoCs contain myriad confidential assets, the identification of security assets is not straightforward. The number and types of assets change due to numerous embedded hardware blocks within the SoC and their complex interactions. Some security assets are easily identifiable because of their distinct characteristics and unique definitions, while others remain in the blind-spot during design and verification and can be utilized as potential attack surfaces to violate confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the SoC. Therefore, it is essential to automatically identify security assets in an SoC at pre-silicon design stages to protect them and prevent potential attacks. In this paper, we propose an automated CAD framework called SAF to identify an SoC's security assets at the register transfer level (RTL) through comprehensive vulnerability analysis under different threat models. Moreover, we develop and incorporate metrics with SAF to quantitatively assess multiple vulnerabilities for the identified security assets. We demonstrate the effectiveness of SAF on MSP430 micro-controller and CEP SoC benchmarks. Our experimental results show that SAF can successfully and automatically identify an SoC's most vulnerable underlying security assets for protection.

In context of Industry 4.0 Augmented Reality (AR) is frequently mentioned as the upcoming interface technology for human-machine communication and collaboration. Many prototypes have already arisen in both the consumer market and in the industrial sector. According to numerous experts it will take only few years until AR will reach the maturity level to be deployed in productive applications. Especially for industrial usage it is required to assess security risks and challenges this new technology implicates. Thereby we focus on plant operators, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and component vendors as stakeholders. Starting from several industrial AR use cases and the structure of contemporary AR applications, in this paper we identify security assets worthy of protection and derive the corresponding security goals. Afterwards we elaborate the threats industrial AR applications are exposed to and develop an edge computing architecture for future AR applications which encompasses various measures to reduce security risks for our stakeholders.